Transcendence

Over a year ago George created a plan to begin retiring old expanded universe and registered content that nolonger works. This is a push towards alleviating the frustrating experience users have when contending with abandoned/unmaintained and broken registered extensions that have no designated maintainer and that the expanded universe team does not have appropriate copyright or resources to fix and update (ex, image or model source files).

What does this mean for you, the users?
Basically nothing really changes, other than a few things are being shuffled around on the websites (Forums and multiverse) but links to them should still work.

Here are the details on what happens when an official extension becomes retired:

• Retired official content discussions can now be found in the Retired official extension forum board
• Before the launch of Transcendence version 2.0, the plan is that retired official content will be moved to its own section in the multiverse, so that users wishing to experience it on either an old version where it still works, or in a current version with unofficial community made patches, can still enjoy it.
• It will still be considered a 'registered' extension: this is for the purposes of submitting high scores to the multiverse, so this feature will still work in old versions of the game.
• Retired content is no longer considered canon if it was originally part of the expanded universe.
• You, the community, are still free to create patches for these abandoned extensions, provided that they respect that original author's copyright - so unless otherwise licensed by the original author, you can use <typeoverride> on broken components with a second mod that extends="unid_of_the_original_mod" just fine
• Unless you were granted a license by the author to do so (or they made a public domain dedication), you still can't repost a standalone patched version off the entire mod or use the assets in an unrelated standalone mod. (Same with any mod, or expansion)